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clive dickens
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Mark I went to the British cemetery in Mafeking last time I was out there and that was in an awful mess too. It seems to me that it is a great pity that these graves of British soldiers who went out to fight for their country cannot be maintained better than this. I also went to Cheively cemetery and I cleaned up the grave of Freddie Roberts VC myself. Clive |
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Andrew Bush
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Mark,
I have just returned from Zululand, and I also visited Helpmekaar. The guide I was with Paul Lamberth from Rorke's Drift Lodge will be contacting the Police Station in front of the grave yard to try and get them to maintain it as some of the dead there as you know are from the Natal Mounted Police who are know part of of the SA police. Fort Pearson has been restored with an Orientation centre and a Diorama. Regards, Andrew Bush |
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Mark Hobson
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Clive & Andrew
Thanks both for your thoughts. It's good to hear that something constructive might be done at Helpmekaar. A few years ago we did a combined Zulu War/ Boer War battlefield tour, escorted by the one and only Paul Naish (my head still hurts from the castle lagers we consumed!) and one thing I did notice was that the graves of men killed in the Boer War were much better kept than those who died in the Zulu War, especially the Boer graves - which is understandable I guess. Perhaps all it will take is for each visitor who travels to the battlefields and graveyards to perhaps do a quick tidy-up job as Clive did, as and when it is needed - a bit of weeding, or a sorting out of the stones surrounding the graves, that kind of thing. Nothing major, just 5 minutes of a thing, and it might make a little bit of difference. Mark Hobson |
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